CJV Credit Test – Written Part Name: _________________________ Result: ___ /50 Student I.D. #: ___________________ Date: __________________________ Teacher: _______________________ Words in Context (10 points) – Find the appropriate words from below to complete the text. Please write the letter from the gaps beside the word in the list below. So far as we know, every human A) society has music. Music is universal, but its meaning is not. A famous musician from Asia was brought to a European symphony concert approximately one hundred and fifty years ago. Although he was a virtuoso B) musician in his own country, he had never heard a performance of Western music. The story goes that after the concert he was asked how he liked it. ‘Very well,’ he replied. Not satisfied with this answer, his hosts asked what part he liked best. ‘The first part’ he said. ‘Oh you C) enjoyed the first movement?’ ‘No, before that!’ To the D) foreigner, the best part of the performance was the tuning-up period. It was music to him, and who was to say otherwise? His hosts. Music, then, though a universal E) phenomenon, gets its meaning from culture. By culture we mean the way of life of a people, learned and passed on from one generation to the next. We stress ‘learned’ because we F) differentiate a people’s cultural inheritance from what is passed along in their genes. From G) birth a person absorbs the cultural inheritance of family, schoolmates, community, and increasingly, the mass-mediated culture of magazines, movies, television, and computers. This cultural inheritance tells you how to understand the situations you are in, and how you might behave H) in those situations. It works so I) automatically that you are aware of it only when it breaks down, as it does J) on occasion; for cultures are not perfectly functioning systems. Musical situations, and also the concept ‘music,’ mean different things and involve different activities among people in various societies. Please write the letter from the gaps above beside the word in the list below. foreigner D on J differentiate F enjoyed C automatically I society A musician B in H phenomenon E birth G Reading Comprehension (12 points) – Read the following passages from European Statistics and answer the following questions by choosing the best answer. Early birds The earliest risers are the Czechs and Hungarians – 46.8% and 42.7%, respectively, get up before 6 a.m. The Spanish and the Irish get up the latest – only about one in fifteen rise before dawn. The Czechs also win the golden toothbrush award – 98.7% had brushed their teeth. In contrast, over a third of the Greeks in the survey had not used a toothbrush in the previous 24 hours. Clean living Almost every single respondent in the Czech Republic had either bathed or showered on the day questioned – but they still came second to Hungary. Here the combined total of those who had either taken a bath or showered is 109.4%, which indicates that quite a few have both every day. Just a percentage point behind the Czechs were the Dutch, at 98.6%. According to the survey, the French and Italians wash more frequently than the Germans and all the Scandinavians except the Danes – the Finns, in fact, have one of the lowest scores in Europe. The most enthusiastic hair washers are the Danes: 70.6% had washed their hair in the previous 24 hours. Only a quarter of east Europeans had shampooed their hair, despite their enthusiasm for showers and baths. Moods Over 40% of Danes and Belgians had felt lucky, but only 6.5% of Greeks. Over 75% of Dutch had felt happy, and those so-called gloomy Scandinavians, the Swedes and Danes, also scored highly. However, less than 25% of Greeks and Russians had felt happy – indeed 30% of people in the former Soviet Union (FSU) had felt sad. In western Europe the saddest nations were the Italians and British – one in four had felt unhappy. Media Four out of five Swiss, and almost as many Norwegians, read newspapers, but less than a third of Greeks do so. Poles and Czechs read the most magazines, followed by the French, Dutch, and Swiss. Nearly 84% of Danes, but only 50% of respondents in the FSU, had listened to the radio in the previous 24 hours. 1. What do the vast majority of Swiss do? 4. What do Czechs and Hungarians have A) They read newspapers and magazines. in common? B) They seldom wash their hair. A) They like to keep up with current events. C) They are not gloomy. B) They would rather have clean teeth. D) They look at daily publications. C) They rise early. D) They are quite optimistic. 2. What preconceptions about Nordic countries are false? A) They are early birds 5. People from Denmark B) They buy monthly periodicals. A) feel more positive when they are clean. C) They are depressed. B) enjoy looking at magazines. D) They can’t stand not having clean teeth. C) normally feel very lucky. D) frequently listen to the radio. 3. People from the Netherlands A) have clean hair, listen to the radio and are happy. 6. What fraction of Italian people feel B) are very clean, read magazines and feel happy. gloomy? C) don’t like to read newspapers A) 25% D) dislike early mornings B) 3/4 C) 1/4 D) 75% Vocabulary – Word Matching (5 points) – Put the correct letters of the synonyms in the blanks. 1. divide F A. hard-working 2. interrupt E B. insufficient 3. opportunity I C. think 4. diligent A D. point to 5. focus on J E. stop 6. consider C F. break up 7. inadequate B G. bit 8. refer D H. mix up 9. part G I. chance 10.confuse H J. look at Vocabulary and Phrases in Context (10 points) – Which word or phrase doesn’t match the other three? Indicate the letter. 1. A) How do you do B) Pleased to meet you C) Nice to see you again D) May I introduce myself? 2. A) computer B) patient C) language D) interpersonal 3. A) As you can see, there B) I hope you’ve gained C) That concludes my talk D)In conclusion are some good reasons for.. an insight into… 4. A) Ireland B) Spanish C) Finnish D) Dutch 5. A) guitar B) drums C) cello D) conductor 6. A) novel B) fairy-tale C) sculpture D) poem 7. A) war B) explosion C) battle D) fight 8. A) holiday B) trip C) tour D) passenger 9. A) temple B) church C) mosque D) Jew 10. A) view B) environment C) nature D) ecology Grammar - Usage (10 points) – Find the mistakes in each sentence. Write the correction above the sentence; DO NOT rewrite the whole sentence. is 1) I don’t know what is the solution to the problem. knows 2) Who does know anything about the author of the report? at at 3) I’m studying Masaryk University on the Faculty of Arts. 4) I’ve studied politics last semester. is 5) Do you happen to know where is the secretary’s office? if contacted 6) Can you tell me did you contact me earlier? 7) What researches have you carried out over the last six months? known 8) Have you been knowing your teacher since the beginning of the course? interested 9) I’m really interesting in reading science fiction. a lot of information 10) I reviewed many informations in preparation for my test. Summary Writing (3 points) – Using grammatical sentences and in no more than fifty words, summarize the main ideas (i.e. not structure) of your oral presentation from this semester.